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Niger Delta Militants Blow Up Main Pipeline

A Niger Delta group known as Urhobo Gbagbako has claimed responsibility for blowing up an NPDC Oil pipeline in Ighrenene, Afiesere and Ekiugbo communities in Delta State. The militants claimed responsibility via an email sent to reporters.

The spokesperson of the group, Priest Omodjuvwu, said the group consist of ex-militants, men, women & children of Urhobo origin, and they decided to blow up the oil pipeline following the continued neglect of the Urhobo militants in the pipelines protection contracts offered to ex-militants from other ethnic groups.

“We have now resumed attack on the NPDC pipeline facilities on a massive scale, which scale of bombings shall be unprecedented,” the email reads